Monster Zero Ate My Soul!

I have no patience at all. I burn out so fast on anything I start to do its pathetic. It's this fact that makes my Monster Zero comic such a personal accomplishment. With thirty pages under my belt I'm strutting with a confidence I've rarely had throughout my days as a artistic type. There's a relentless drive for this comic inside me that I've never experienced before. I know this is hardly an interesting observation and its completely self serving but I don't care. Sometimes it feels good to let the ego loose a bit. Besides, its not like I've experienced some massive success. I'm still just a guy who draws a web comic. I'm a dime a dozen really and that's cool. I have very few readers as far as I can tell. It just feels good to have finally created something I believe in without question.

There I'm finished with the ego stroking.

Now I'll talk about the hard stuff regarding my comic venture. It's truly a pain in the ass trying to market something with a next to nothing budget. The Internet is a relentless thing and everyone is pushing to be heard out here. I've been trying nonstop to pimp Monster Zero to as many sites as I can find. The whole online comic web scene is tough though. For one I'm drawing a comic book not a comic strip so the dynamic is different. People like their instant gratification and it's hard to give that to them when it takes ten or so pages to finish a scene. I can't self publish so the nets my only outlet. I intend to keep searching for a combination of ways to get the word out. If only I were a manga artist.

One last thing I'd also like to talk about is the notion of deserving an audience. It's easy for me to have confidence in my comic but that doesn't make it good on any level. The same can be said of anything though. Any work of art or fiction is someones passion. It may have appeal and it may not. That's left for the masses to judge. I'm just out here looking to be judged. I want the opportunity to see if the ideas in my head about entertainment are the same as others. And if they are then I'd like to provide that entertainment to them. I've thought long and hard about why I do this stuff. I came to the conclusion that its for the right reasons. I want to be an entertainer in this medium just like everyone else out there trying their hand at it. I have certain things I'd like to express within this art form. At the end of the day it just makes sense to me to try. It's what my heart tells me.